WING

WING

WING "ESPN 1410" is a commercial AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio operating with 5,000 watts at 1410 kHz with studios, offices and transmitter located on David Road in Kettering. It is the first full-time commercial radio station in Dayton. It is currently an affiliate of ESPN Radio, but is best known and remembered as Dayton's first Top 40-formatted station.

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Wing

Wing is a term used by different military aviation forces for a unit of command. The terms wing, group or Staffel are used for different-sized units from one country or service to another.

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wing

Noun

  1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
  2. Human arm.
  3. Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
  4. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  5. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  6. Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  7. Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  8. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  9. Passage by flying; flight.
    to take wing
  10. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  11. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
  12. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  13. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  14. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
  15. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
    1. A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
    2. A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
  16. A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
  17. A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
  18. That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
  19. A position in several field games on either side of the field.
  20. A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
  21. A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.
  22. One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.

Verb

  1. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
  2. To fly.
  3. To add a wing (extra part) to.
  4. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
  5. To throw.


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